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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:45:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/31] timer: Switch to testing for .function instead of .data
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> In several places, .data is checked for initialization to gate early
> calls to del_timer_sync(). Checking for .function is equally valid, so
> switch to this in all callers.

Not seeing the rest of patches it is unclear from the patch
description why this is needed/wanted.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry